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SAGE-Net: Semantics-Augmented Geometric Encoder for Material Property Prediction

Guanghui Zhang Yuxuan Yao Kieran B. Spooner Junzuo Yin Dan Han David O. Scanlon Lijun Zhang
Jul 2026 · 0 citations · 51 references
Physics

Abstract

Reliable structure-property modeling is crucial for accelerating materials discovery, where crystal graphs and structure-derived crystallographic descriptions provide complementary geometric and semantic information. Existing multimodal materials models primarily incorporate textual information through post-encoding fusion, latent-space alignment, or attention-based representation interaction mechanisms. However, in most cases, crystallographic semantics are introduced after structural encoding and therefore cannot directly guide the formation of atom-level crystal-graph representations. Here, we present Semantics-Augmented Geometric Encoder Network (SAGE-Net), a flexible multimodal framework that injects description-derived chemical and crystallographic semantics into geometric message passing. SAGE-Net introduces Semantic-Guided Message Passing (SGMP), which gates atom-level updates and enables crystallographic semantics to directly modulate local geometric interactions across multiple graph neural network (GNN) backbones. Across benchmarks covering bandgap, mechanical, transport-related properties, and synthesizability assessment, the SAGE-Net instantiated with different GNN backbones achieves the lowest MAE on eight out of ten JARVIS-DFT regression targets and delivers strong or highly competitive performance against both structure-based and multimodal baselines. For synthesizability assessment, the SAGE-Net demonstrate outstanding classification performance and high recall rates. Interpretability analysis unravels that SAGE-Net effectively captures physically interpretable crystallographic features, viz. space group, dimensionality, polyhedral environments, among others. Together, these results demonstrate SGMP-based SAGE-Net as a general and transferable framework for deeply integrated multimodal materials learning.

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